For me it's no longer relief, I feel very fortunate to be able to travel through life with minimal reference to the events of late 2011 and 2012. Those events haven't just gone away, they are no longer that "prominent elephant" sitting in the corner of the room.
Since I last posted back in 2014 - 3 years ago, a lot has changed at home.
Kathryn and Hayley live away from home, so the house is a bit quieter!
Kathryn works in the prison service (she got sick of the police taking forever to recruit her) and she will shortly start a new role as a 'provisional psychologist' in the prison service with an aim to get her masters in psychology.
Hayley lives in country Queensland and is teaching Prep and Year 1 children in a town 4 hours west of Townsville - she's loving it and fully involved in the local community as you need to be in such a town.
Kyle is at Uni. in his second year of study (Commerce and International business) and working as a lifeguard at the same centre as the girls have done previously. He has also applied to work at the Commonwealth Games which will be held on the Gold Coast in April next year.
Liz is undertaking a Masters degree in education and maintaining her usual prolific workload along with triathlon training. She has also endured over 30 years with me, including 27 years of married life - lucky girl.
For me, I've started cycling in a group, enthused by Liz's reports of the joys of cycling. Of course, once I started, Liz concentrated on her triathlon training so I never see her anyway! Last July I left work when my role was made redundant - ho hum - it's been a year now of applying, refining my CV and Linkedin profiles with little work success. Not a problem, just sometimes frustrating!!
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| Family dinner - the five of us, plus my brother Paul and nephew Will, who recently visited from the UK. |
You may recall this wonderful post from Hayley back in July 2012.
http://hairymel.blogspot.com.au/2012_07_01_archive.html
Keep well
